<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : weird : All Links : ATOM 0.3</title><link>http://weird.plime.com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><entry><title><![CDATA[Man angrily tells cop what to do with his wife, his gun and his horse]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/135444/1/" /><id>135444</id><summary><![CDATA[Man angrily tells cop what to do with his wife, his gun and his horse]]></summary><issued>2009-11-06T18:49:00+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-06T18:49:00+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Fletcher swore at the officer and made the comments about the policeman's wife, and the officer's horse &#8211; which Rouches said the patrolman didn't have &#8211; followed by the suggestion of where the officer could best secure his weapon.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[SUV Sideswipes Elephant in Oklahoma]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/135428/1/" /><id>135428</id><summary><![CDATA[SUV Sideswipes Elephant in Oklahoma]]></summary><issued>2009-11-06T11:28:42+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-06T11:28:42+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Quote from driver: &quot;So help me Hanna, had I hit that elephant, not swerved, it would have knocked it off its legs, and it would have landed right on top of us,&quot; he said. &quot;We'd have been history.&quot;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Swine Flu Cheerleader Who Can Only Walk Backwards]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/135396/1/" /><id>135396</id><summary><![CDATA[The Swine Flu Cheerleader Who Can Only Walk Backwards]]></summary><issued>2009-11-05T07:35:09+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-05T07:35:09+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[DESREE JENNINGS is a woman &#8220;convinced that a flu shot given to her has lead to a rare disorder which means she can only walk backwards&#8221;. Video in article.<br/>I couldn't find more reputable sources for this, and it's not really about the flu, but the predicament itself is heartwrenching.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Breathalyzer Man Busted]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/135377/1/" /><id>135377</id><summary><![CDATA[Breathalyzer Man Busted]]></summary><issued>2009-11-04T18:21:55+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-04T18:21:55+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Miller's costume, which retails for about $30, includes three sobriety levels: Boring, Life of the Party, and Sotally Tober. It also includes a well-placed plastic tube with the instructions &quot;Blow Here.&quot;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[State Trooper Gets A Manicure]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/135370/1/" /><id>135370</id><summary><![CDATA[State Trooper Gets A Manicure]]></summary><issued>2009-11-04T17:09:12+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-04T17:09:12+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A Massachusetts State Police officer lost his Logan airport billet and got a written reprimand after getting a manicure while in uniform. Hope that was one good manicure, trooper]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Meadow the Calf Gets Prosthetic Legs]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/135368/1/" /><id>135368</id><summary><![CDATA[Meadow the Calf Gets Prosthetic Legs]]></summary><issued>2009-11-04T16:22:15+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-04T16:22:15+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The 11-month-old calf had lost her back hooves and half of her ears to severe frostbite. These days, Meadow is running and grazing, and making friends with goats in a nearby pen.<br/><br/>*Not the calf in thumbnail.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Vets baffled by bald bears]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/135360/1/" /><id>135360</id><summary><![CDATA[Vets baffled by bald bears]]></summary><issued>2009-11-04T12:19:38+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-04T12:19:38+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[All the female bespectacled bears at a zoo in Leipzig Germany have lost almost all their hair. The reason for this dilemma is not fully understood yet although various ideas are being floated]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Odd Organizations &amp; Movements that only Thrive Online]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/135309/1/" /><id>135309</id><summary><![CDATA[Odd Organizations &amp; Movements that only Thrive Online]]></summary><issued>2009-11-02T09:40:24+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-02T09:40:24+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[One of the most celebrated functions of the Internet is an unprecedented ability for people to connect. This has led to social networks, online dating, and, it turns out, a lot of people connecting over really strange things. Here are some of the more interesting clubs that the internet has helped give life to.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Harry Johnson pleads 'no contest' to bestiality]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/135305/1/" /><id>135305</id><summary><![CDATA[Harry Johnson pleads 'no contest' to bestiality]]></summary><issued>2009-11-01T20:13:16+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-01T20:13:16+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Caught in the act, a homeless Texarkana man has pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor bestiality charge involving a horse.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Why can't you tickle yourself?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/135213/1/" /><id>135213</id><summary><![CDATA[Why can't you tickle yourself?]]></summary><issued>2009-10-29T14:35:37+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-29T14:35:37+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A nice study paper explaining why you can't tickle yourself.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Singer killed by coyotes]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/135210/1/" /><id>135210</id><summary><![CDATA[Singer killed by coyotes]]></summary><issued>2009-10-29T14:15:54+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-29T14:15:54+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Wile. E Coyote was not available for comment after a singer was killed by coyotes while hiking in an east coast national park.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Jon Gosselin And Octomom Set To Date On Reality Show ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/135191/1/" /><id>135191</id><summary><![CDATA[Jon Gosselin And Octomom Set To Date On Reality Show ]]></summary><issued>2009-10-28T19:18:36+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-28T19:18:36+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Jon Gosselin from Jon and Kate plus Eight and Nadya Suleman, the Octomom?!<br/><br/>Someone tell me this is just a cruel, very unfunny joke!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Dylan Thomas Is Baaaaack!]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/135187/1/" /><id>135187</id><summary><![CDATA[Dylan Thomas Is Baaaaack!]]></summary><issued>2009-10-28T17:51:53+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-28T17:51:53+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Just in time for Halloween. The Chelsea Hotel bloggers received a desperate cry for answers after a tourist spent three nights at the hotel, only to be menaced on her final evening by the ghost of Dylan Thomas! She was with her boyfriend, but he slept soundly through the sighting.<br/><br/>Dylan Thomas was living in Room 206 of the hotel at the time of his death.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Library complains of crossed-out curses]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/135161/1/" /><id>135161</id><summary><![CDATA[Library complains of crossed-out curses]]></summary><issued>2009-10-27T22:58:19+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-27T22:58:19+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Workers at a Tennessee library said someone has been using blue ink to completely scratch out curse words from books in the collection.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Colonel Sanders Meets the President of the UN]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/135146/1/" /><id>135146</id><summary><![CDATA[Colonel Sanders Meets the President of the UN]]></summary><issued>2009-10-27T10:13:37+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-27T10:13:37+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Red-faced United Nations officials on Monday admitted to a major security lapse after a UN guard helped Kentucky Fried Chicken's &quot;Colonel Sanders&quot; gain access to restricted areas.<br/><br/>Apparently they didn't know he was decades dead.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Whisky on (Antarctic) Ice, Anyone?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/135112/1/" /><id>135112</id><summary><![CDATA[Whisky on (Antarctic) Ice, Anyone?]]></summary><issued>2009-10-26T13:57:08+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-26T13:57:08+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Conservators in Antarctica are toasting to a fascinating discovery: buried under the frozen Antarctic ground , they found two intact cases of Scotch whisky left behind a century ago by Sir Ernest Shackleton from a failed expedition in 1907.<br/><br/>The cases of Charles Mackinlay &amp; Co. whisky won't be retrieved until January, when the Antarctic Summer sun can melt the ice around them. In the meantime, we will all be left to wonder what century-old, Antarctic-iced Scotch tastes like.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Three Moon Shirt]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/135095/1/" /><id>135095</id><summary><![CDATA[Three Moon Shirt]]></summary><issued>2009-10-26T00:58:38+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-26T00:58:38+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Apparently, it is all the rage on the Internets.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[7 Lamest Yet Widely Believed Cryptozoological Hoaxes]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/135063/1/" /><id>135063</id><summary><![CDATA[7 Lamest Yet Widely Believed Cryptozoological Hoaxes]]></summary><issued>2009-10-25T02:25:40+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-25T02:25:40+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Are alleged species like De Loys&#8217; Ape, suebe, the Hodag and Mer-People bona fide beasties on earth or do they only roam in the minds of fraudsters and their credulous believers?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Ice Skating Bear Kills Trainer]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/134994/1/" /><id>134994</id><summary><![CDATA[Ice Skating Bear Kills Trainer]]></summary><issued>2009-10-23T10:09:11+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-23T10:09:11+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[An ice-skating bear turned on its trainers, killing one and seriously wounding another. A visiting Russian troupe was rehearsing for a show in Bishkek when the attack occurred Wednesday.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Road Kill Toy]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/134947/1/" /><id>134947</id><summary><![CDATA[Road Kill Toy]]></summary><issued>2009-10-22T01:07:00+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-22T01:07:00+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Toy Teaches Children About Life And Death]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Bear Heads Straight for the Beer]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/134839/1/" /><id>134839</id><summary><![CDATA[Bear Heads Straight for the Beer]]></summary><issued>2009-10-18T10:24:18+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-18T10:24:18+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Shoppers in a Wisconsin grocery store got an unexpected surprise when a 125-pound black bear wandered inside and headed straight for the beer cooler.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Man tries to euthanize dog -- dog's owner tries to euthanize man]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/134810/1/" /><id>134810</id><summary><![CDATA[Man tries to euthanize dog -- dog's owner tries to euthanize man]]></summary><issued>2009-10-17T13:34:34+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-17T13:34:34+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A motorist hit a dog and tried to &quot;put the dog out of its misery&quot; using a hammer and a machete. The dog's owner ran over, grabbed the implements and started attacking the motorist, police say.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Woman lived with corpse for a week]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/134809/1/" /><id>134809</id><summary><![CDATA[Woman lived with corpse for a week]]></summary><issued>2009-10-17T13:28:15+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-17T13:28:15+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A Texas woman who lived with a corpse for a week because she 'didn't want to leave' the body of her boyfriend]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The &quot;XXXXXXX&quot; Man Gets Tagged]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/134805/1/" /><id>134805</id><summary><![CDATA[The &quot;XXXXXXX&quot; Man Gets Tagged]]></summary><issued>2009-10-17T12:01:20+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-17T12:01:20+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[&quot;Racer X's&quot; vanity plate just does not compute in city computers - and it's helped him rack up about $19,000 in tickets in Birmingham, Ala.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Killer Wears Picture Of Victim On His Shirt During Sentencing]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/134804/1/" /><id>134804</id><summary><![CDATA[Killer Wears Picture Of Victim On His Shirt During Sentencing]]></summary><issued>2009-10-17T11:46:30+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-17T11:46:30+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A man convicted of killing his girlfriend apparently decided that the best thing to wear at his sentencing was &quot;a T-shirt with his victim's picture and the words 'R.I.P. Love You Forever.'&quot;]]></content></entry></items></xml>